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Pelican Squad Agenda: Saboteurs of the Abyss: Book I Part 1-1
Paperback
Series: Book I Part1-1, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 506
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Chapters 1-10
Beneath the ocean, civilization travels through glass no thicker than a garden hose.
When a major transpacific submarine cable suddenly falls silent, governments dismiss it as a technical malfunction. But as outages spread across financial markets, military systems, satellite coordination networks, and coastal landing stations, a terrifying truth begins to surface:
Someone is deliberately severing the world's invisible lifelines.
Far from political summits and media headlines, the aging repair vessel Pelican Dawn is dispatched into dangerous waters. Commanded by the exhausted but respected Captain Elias Vey, the volunteer crew of engineers, divers, and maritime specialists races to restore connections before global panic spirals out of control.
Among them are Hana Seo, a brilliant fiber-optic systems engineer uncovering impossible signal anomalies; Mateo Ruiz, a saturation diver haunted by a previous deep-sea disaster; Naomi Mercer, a cybersecurity strategist tracing ghost traffic hidden beneath normal outages; and investigative journalist Idris Vale, who suspects the world is witnessing the opening moves of a hidden war.
As violent storms gather over the Pacific and evidence of sabotage emerges from the abyss, the crew realizes the attacks are neither random nor isolated. Autonomous systems move unseen beneath the waves. Insurance markets begin collapsing. Coastal stations fall silent. And scattered repair crews across the world start answering a desperate call for assistance.
What begins as emergency maintenance becomes a race to prevent the unraveling of modern civilization itself.
Cold, atmospheric, and frighteningly plausible, Pelican Squad Agenda: Saboteurs of the Abyss blends maritime realism, geopolitical tension, and high-stakes technological suspense in the tradition of The Hunt for Red October, The Abyss, and Michael Crichton-style techno-thrillers.
The ocean keeps receipts.
And the abyss is beginning to answer back.
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